Via Valpara ghats through dens fog

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 Do you know Valpara?

A beautiful place at Kerala Thamilnadu border. Aaliyar dam at the bottom, dense forest at the hill slop, beautiful tea garden on the top and misty scenes all the way.... It would be a passion for any nature lovers to travel through this wonderful land at least once in their life.

The ghats... ie. the mountain pass (CHURAM) is on the way to Pollachi from Valpara. That is the route we have selected for our today's trip.

How to reach Valpara?

Take Athirappalli(where we have a beautiful water fall)  road from Chalakkudi (a place in NH47) and take Pollachi road from Athirappalli. It will be around 50 KM from Athirappalli to Valpara. And in that distance we will be going through Sholayar reserved forest. It is a really enjoyable way. zigzaged road with a lot of pits. If you are lucky you can see Elephants, dears, different verities of monkeys, birds and even leopards if you are more lucky.  Vehicles are not allowed through forest after 5pm. So if you have a plan to visit Athirapplli falls also, go directly to Valpara and come back to see the falls.[if you have any plan to go through Pollachi, then just go after visiting Athirappalli falls any how don't miss it]

OK. lets start our journey through the ghats, are you ready??

  This is the first hair pin bend of the ghats. We have to cross 40 of such bends. What we see in the background is the Aaliyaar dam. If you want you can go till there. There is a small maintained park over there. I will be waiting here looking at the wide and wast reservoir till then.

This is the view of the dam. The park is at the side where you can see a small light.

 

How so you like the road towards the hill?

 

see how other vehicles are trekking towards us. we were there just a couple of minutes ago.

Reaching the sky level. you can see sky looking Down also

Lets merge in to the romance of sky with the greenery 

Can see 5-10 meters, Just the color of mist after that

 

 Any one will enjoy the scenes at the top. No can resist stopping their vehicles. The beautiful tea gardens..

can you believe that this picture is takes at 2:30 pm?

click here for more photos of this tea garden

We don't have enough time.. come lets go back to Aathirappalli

 

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